Lorca Smetana is a vibrant source for those curious about the inner workings of resilience, burnout, compassion, creativity, and deep connection. At the age of 16, she was a survivor of the 1986 school mountaineering tragedy on Mount Hood where nine people died, and she began to craft a life of resilience. Today she is an expert in the human capacity to recover and sustain life and health from crisis, change, and burnout, and is an explorer of designed resilience. She founded a medical aviation non-profit, holds a master’s degree in international diplomacy, and served on the Leadership Development faculty at Montana State University. Now she is a professional speaker, educator, and coach, a regenerative farmer, a celebrant, and a writer. She architects wholeness, helping individuals, teams, and communities better understand what it is to be powerfully resilient ecosystems for themselves and in the world.